Fly-trap.



PATENTED APR. 14, 1908 S. A. .HAGKLEY-L FLY TRAP. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 28,1901.

q Vi memes SUMNER A. HACKLEY, OF VICTOR, COLORADO.

FLY-TRAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed August 28, 1907. Serial No. 890,529.

.trap in the form of an attachment, as indicated, which consists of a receptacle or body portion adapted to contain a poison or insecticide with a foraminous hood attached to the said receptacle and having a suitable inlet opening for the admission of the fiies.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1' is a side elevation of the trap. Fig. 2 is an .end elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

The trap consists of the semi-cylindrical pan or receptacle 1 to the up er edges of which is attached a hood 2.. T e hood 2 is preferably made of fine-mesh screen wire but it may be formed from other foraminous material. The hood is substantially semi-cylindrical in formation but is of greater transverse dimensions than the rece tacle 1, consequently one of the edges 0 the hood is spaced from the adjacent edge of the receptacle. The said hood is provided at its edge, which is spaced from the edge of the receptacle with an opaque plate 3 and the edge of the hood and the edge of the receptacle are provided with anticlinal foraminous strips 4, 4 which are bound at their free edges by the sheet metal strips 5, 5. The said fora-ruinous strps 4 are disposed under the hood 2.

he receptacle 1 is provided at one end with a hinged door 6 having a spring clasp 7. Said receptacle is adapted to contain a poi; sonous powder or insecticide. The helical hangers 8 partly surround the hood and the receptacle and are provided with end portions 9 which are adapted to be attached to the frame of the door or window or other supporting object.

When in use the fly tra is attacheo to a glassor screen door or WlIlt ow at, or near the top or bottom thereof and the flies in an endeavor to get to the li ht will walk up) the transparent portion of t e supporting 0 ject and pass between the antichnal strips 4 4 into the trap. The opaque plate 3 and.

strips 5 will shade the entrance sufficiently in order that flies, when once in the trap, will not have sufficient light in order to use the entrance as a means of exit.

The fly-trap, hereinabove described and illustrated in the drawing, has a curved or semi-cylindrical body and hood, but this form is optional, as it may be constructed of square, rectangular or any other polygonal shape desired without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having described .my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent is:-*-

, 1. A trap comprising a receptacle, a foraminous hood located over the same and having an edge spaced from an adjacent edge of the rece tacle, an opaque plate attached to the hoo at the said edge thereof which is spaced from the edge of the rece tacle and anticlinal strips attached to the e ges of the hood and the receptacle.

2. A trap comprising a substantially semicylindrical receptacle and a substantially semi-cylindrical hood, said hood having-an edge spaced from the edge of the rece tacle,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- SUMNER A. HACKLEY.

Witnesses:

E. Asnnns'ox, B. F. ZIM'MERMAN.

ant-iclinal strips located at the space edges- 

